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Reading Time: 3 minutesDebian like distributions have a nice option to manage distribution upgrade (apt-get dist-upgrade), not available on RedHat like distributions… in-place upgrade are still possible, but maybe much more tricky and sometimes not supported at all. For Rocky Linux in-place upgrades from one major version to the next aren’t supported (see https://docs.rockylinux.org/release_notes/9_0/) at all and there is a good reason… if somethings goes wrong you cannot revert the operation. There are also other good reasons, like that the new version may require more resources (for example, disk space).

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 2020, The CentOS Project, in coordination with Red Hat, announced that it would shift full investment to CentOS Stream, the upstream development platform for upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases. That mean that will be no more alligned to the production version of Red Hat Enterprise. As a result, CentOS Linux 7 has reached end of life (EOL) on June 30, 2024.  One of the possible CentOS Linux alternative can be Rocky Linux.

Reading Time: 2 minutesLinus Torvalds announced today the release and general availability of Linux kernel 6.10, the latest stable version of the Linux kernel (available on kernel.org) that introduces several new features and improvements. As always, there are many other features, new drivers, improvements and fixes. For a complete list see this post and this post.